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rendement: production, output, yield; efficiency, productivity
rendez-vous: date; rendezvous; appointment
rendez-vous galant: a date, a tryst
rendormir: to fall asleep again, to fall back to sleep, to go back to sleep
rendre: to give back; to render; to pay (a visit, respects); to yield; to vomit, to let out from the body
rendre chèvre: to drive nuts, to drive crazy, to drive up the wall
rendre compte: to account for, to explain; to realize, to notice, to become aware (of)
rendre coup pour coup: to give as good as one gets
rendre des comptes: to be answerable, to be accountable, to account, to justify oneself
rendre gorge: to regurgitate; to vomit; to return something, to give back something illicitly taken (compare "cough up")
rendre grâce: to give thanks, to express one's gratitude
rendre hommage: to pay tribute
rendre justice: to do justice to, to give (someone/something) their due
rendre l'âme: to pass away; to give up the ghost (die)
rendre la justice: to dispense justice
rendre la monnaie de sa pièce: to give someone a taste of their own medicine, to retaliate, to pay back in someone's own coin, to pay back in kind
rendre la pareille: to return the favor [with à ‘to someone’] (in a favorable sense); to pay back in kind, to pay back in someone's own coin, to get one's own back on [with à ‘someone’] (in an unfavorable sense)
rendre le dernier soupir: to draw one's last breath, to breathe one’s last, to give up the ghost, to die
rendre raison: to account for, to explain; to justify; [with à]
rendre service: to help out, to do a favour to, to oblige
rendre son tablier: to hang up one's hat, to quit
rendre son âme au bon Dieu: to pass away; to give up the ghost (die)
rendre son âme à Dieu: to pass away; to give up the ghost (die)
rendre visite: to visit; to pay a visit to
rendre à César ce qui est à César: to give credit where credit's due
rendu: an instance of rendering, a render; change (money given back); stock
renduire: To coat, paint
renettoyer: to reclean
renfermer: to lock again, to re-lock; to contain, encompass; to withdraw into oneself
renfiler: to rethread
renflammer: to reignite
renflement: bulge
renfler: to make (something) bulge; to bulge (out)
renflouement: bailing out
renflouer: to refloat; raise; to put back on track; to bail out
renfoncement: recess; indentation
renfoncer: to push in etc again
renforcement: reinforcement; bolstering
renforcer: to reinforce, strengthen
renforcir: to reinforce, strengthen
renforcisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of renforcir
renfort: reinforcement; backup, help
renforçant: reinforcing, strengthening
renfrognement: scowling, frowning
renfrogner: to scowl, frown
renfrogné: sullen
rengager: to reengage
rengaine: tune, refrain
rengainer: to sheathe (a sword), to holster (a gun), etc.; to swallow, hold back (force oneself to not utter)
rengorger: to be filled with vanity and conceit
reniement: disavowal, denial
renier: to renounce; to disown; to take back (what has been said), to renege
reniflard: breather (in an automobile, air inlet path to the crankcase)
reniflement: sniff, sniffing; sniffle, snivel
renifler: to sniff; to smell (sense with the nose); to turn up one's nose (at)
renifleur: sniffer
renipper: to repair, fix up
renminbi: renminbi
rennais: of, from or relating to the city of Rennes, the prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, France
renne: reindeer